“If it comes, of course. But I don’t think that we can somehow influence the situation now. Now Malaysia is involved in the investigation, let's see what happens next, ”RIA Novosti quoted Mahathir Mohamad as saying.

In late July, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia, Sayfuddin Abdullah, in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper, called on the international community to conduct an open investigation into the Boeing disaster in the Donbass, as well as to abandon the unfounded accusations of Russia.

A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 crashing from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed on July 17, 2014 in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.

The victims of the disaster were all aboard: 283 passengers and 15 crew members.